8vo. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title, and 38 engraved plates. 20th-century red crushed levant COSWAY STYLE BINDING BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE with their S&S monogram for Chas. J. Sawyer, Ltd., covers with teal onlay and gilt floral cornerpieces, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest with blue floral onlays gilt, edges gilt, wide turn-ins gilt, blue morocco doublures gilt with floral red and green morocco onlay cornerpieces gilt, upper doublure set with an inlaid miniature portrait of Thackeray, blue watered silk endleaves (a few tiny scuffs to extremities); cloth folding case.

FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, later issue without the suppressed woodcut of Lord Steyne on p. 336. Grolier English 87; Van Duzer 231.